polysyndeton

polysyndeton


pol.y.syn.de.ton n. [LGk. polusundeton, neuter of polusundetos, using many connectives: polus, many + sundetos, bound together.^ see syndetic] The repetition of connectives or conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere.

Example:
Axelrod, Mark, Giose Rimanelli: prose and verse, Italian and English.., Vol. 71, World Literature Today, 01-01-1997, pp 95(4). "...accompanied by the polysyndeton use of "the snow, the silence, the quick love, the astral call oh fly the friendly skies,..."


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